Almighty Appraiser

Chapter 575
"It must be admitted that the ancient tomb is well preserved, and it can even be said to be the best preserved ancient tomb unearthed in recent years."

"Judging from the pictures published in the newspaper, the cultural relics of the tombs have also been well protected, which is especially rare."

"Perhaps, experts and scholars in the domestic archaeological field can have a new understanding of the bureaucratic system in the early Ming Dynasty based on this discovery."

In Hanzhong, a five-star hotel, in a presidential suite, Na Yuanliang, who was dressed in casual clothes, and Vice President Qin, who was also in casual clothes, sat on the sofa in the living room and discussed the content of today's newspaper.

After all, Na Yuanliang is an authority in the appraisal of cultural entertainment in Hong Kong Island. Vice President Qin is the senior vice president of Caltex Auction House. The focus of the two coincides with each other. on the picture.

Two of them are pictures of four cultural relics unearthed from the ancient tomb, and the other is a full-body photo of the owner of the tomb wearing a fox headgear.

Based on his own experience, after analyzing the ancient tomb and the four cultural relics for Vice President Qin, Na Yuanliang looked at the photo of the owner of the tomb and fell into deep thought.

Vice President Qin is quite experienced in administration and diplomacy, and knows little about cultural relics and burial culture. Originally, he wanted to ask Director Na what he thought of the fox hood, but when he saw him lost in thought, he did not bother him. After understanding, I will tell myself why.

From the corner of his eyes, he told himself that Vice President Qin was paying attention to him, and Na Yuanliang relaxed his frown a little.

It was the first time in his life that he encountered such a weird way of encoffining. Na Yuanliang exhausted what he had learned in half his life, and he never thought why the owner of the tomb put such a realistic fox mask headgear on his head.

What makes Na Yuanliang even more puzzling is that with decades of work experience in the auction house, he has gained knowledge and handled more cultural relics than those experts and professors who were at the site of the ancient tomb in person. The area is also wider, but I have never seen any cultural relics like the fox headgear.

Since I haven't seen it before, I can only look up historical materials through ancient books.

I quickly went through some cultural relic books that I still have impressions in my mind, but I still didn't get anything.

Na Yuanliang realized that he was stumped by the strange behavior of the owner of the tomb this time.

However, Vice President Qin looked at him expectantly and told Na Yuanliang that he always wanted to give Vice President Qin an explanation.

Like those few experts and professors who faced the news media and did not give a definite answer vaguely, Na Yuanliang felt that he could not do it.

Who makes himself an authority?

Noticing a faint smile on Na Yuanliang's face, and nodding thoughtfully, Vice President Qin knew that Director Na had figured out why the owner of the tomb was wearing a fox hood.

"Director Na, what do you think is the reason why the owner of the tomb wears a fox headgear when he is buried?"

Vice President Qin got up to refill Na Yuanliang's teacup with hot water, and put the teacup in front of Na Yuanliang with both hands.

According to the administrative level, the rank of vice president Qin is obviously higher than the title of director Na Yuanliang, but the reason why vice president Qin called Na Yuanliang the honorific "you" and made tea himself is nothing less than that he He is younger than Na Yuanliang, because for a company like an auction house that deals with antiques and cultural relics all day long, authoritative experts in cultural relics appraisal are more important than administrative talents.

Vice President Qin has a very deep understanding of this point, and he is very resolute in implementing the chairman's "oral order" that has not been written into the company's rules and regulations.

Na Yuanliang was polite to Vice President Qin, took a sip of the teacup he handed over with both hands and said slowly: "Since there are written records, the history of human beings wearing masks has been thousands of years, and the earliest masks were produced in Hunting is when hunters put on masks and dress themselves up as various animals in order to get closer to their prey."

"In addition, masks are a special field of plastic arts. According to written records, it was most popular in very remote ancient times. At that time, many tribes and tribes often used masks as a combination of sculpture and painting to create very wonderful masks. , although it looks grotesque now, it is an important achievement of plastic arts after all."

"The earliest manifestation of Nuo culture, which has a long history and is widely popular among various ethnic groups, with strong religious and artistic colors, is actually mask culture."

"The appearance of the mask itself marks a progress in this society, indicating that people have moved from superficial to abstract thinking."

Na Yuanliang took another sip of hot tea, raised his right index finger and pointed to the newspaper on the table and continued: "As for the fox mask, I think the reason why the owner of the tomb asked his family members or servants to wear the headgear after death On my own head, there are no more than two reasons: one is that the fox headgear is a face protector, and the other is that it is a mask that the owner of the tomb gave to others."

Speaking of this, Na Yuanliang smiled faintly, looked at the huge floor-to-ceiling glass, his two eyes looked at a certain point in the distance through the glass without focus, and said: "About the face protector, "Song History · Di Qing Biography "It is written: "When facing the enemy, you can wear hair and wear a copper mask. If you go in and out of the thieves, you will be invincible."."

In addition, there is a sentence in the fifth and second chapters of "Water Margin", "The cooked copper mask is like a gold dress, and the iron hob is like a broom." ’ It’s actually about someone wearing a mask and fighting the enemy. "

"The theory of masks can also be learned from some works of the ancients, such as "Yuefu Miscellaneous Records Exorcising Nuo" written by Duan Anjie in the Tang Dynasty, 'Four people with squares, wearing crowns and masks, and gold for the four eyes.'; In Volume [-] of Lu You's "Notes on Laoxue'an" in the Song Dynasty, it is written that "'Zhenghe Zhongdan Nuo, go to Guifu to enter the mask. '. "

"Based on the identity of the owner of the tomb, I can conclude that the fox headgear should be a face protector worn by the owner of the tomb when he fought on the battlefield during his lifetime."

Looking at Na Yuanliang, who was calm and calm, drinking tea slowly, Vice President Qin sighed sincerely: "You have to be Director Na, Mr. Na, to see through the fog of history and find many hidden questions."

"Hahaha, if there are news media reporters present, they will definitely applaud Nalao's profound knowledge, and let more people know Nalao's thesis on the fox mask through the pen and lens in their hands."

Na Yuanliang waved his hand lightly, smiled and said to Vice President Qin: "I'm speaking from a family. If those experts and professors find out, they will definitely say that I am talking nonsense."

Vice President Qin laughed and said some compliments to Na Yuanliang. When the assistant knocked on the door and asked him to meet the invited guests, he said goodbye and left Na Yuanliang's room.

(End of this chapter)